An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
SPECTRE
ghost, shade, spook, wraith, specter, spectre
(noun) a mental representation of some haunting experience; “he looked like he had seen a ghost”; “it aroused specters from his past”
apparition, phantom, phantasm, phantasma, fantasm, specter, spectre
(noun) a ghostly appearing figure; “we were unprepared for the apparition that confronted us”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
spectre (plural spectres)
British standard spelling of specter.
Anagrams
• Sceptre, recepts, respect, scepter, sceptre, specter
Source: Wiktionary
Spec"ter, Spec"tre, n. Etym: [F. spectre, fr. L. spectrum an appearance, image, specter, fr. specere to look. See Spy, and cf. Spectrum.]
1. Something preternaturally visible; an apparition; a ghost; a phantom. The ghosts of traitors from the bridge descend, With bold fanatic specters to rejoice. Dryden.
2. (Zoöl.) (a) The tarsius. (b) A stick insect. Specter bat (Zoöl.), any phyllostome bat.
– Specter candle (Zoöl.), a belemnite.
– Specter shrimp (Zoöl.), a skeleton shrimp. See under Skeleton.
Spec"tre, n.
Definition: See Specter.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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